sentimental - Story 129995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on her phone as she was making coffee. "Your essay has been selected…" Her heart started to pound. Then, the realization settled over her like a warm blanket. It was the essay about her mother, her struggles and triumphs.

She reread the essay, tracing her finger along the screen. The vulnerability she had laid bare for the admissions committee now felt strangely powerful. It was a testament to their bond. She found herself smiling despite herself.

She put down the phone and glanced at the photographs scattered around her kitchen, each a reminder of the many years and countless memories that she and her mother shared. She reached for the phone again, then changed her mind. She would call her mother later, when she could give her full attention.

Emotion: sentimental

Cluster: Nostalgia / Reflection

PC1 (Valence): 0.89 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sentimental. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sentimental stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sentimental emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sentimental vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.677
`fondly`	0.567
`memories`	0.503
`曾`	0.488
`reminis`	0.466

Suppressed:

`either`	-0.515
`or`	-0.488
`[]`	-0.473
`-`	-0.408
`не`	-0.396